Legionella: A Key Organism in Water Management
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and One Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 2905
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Interests: recreational waters; disinfection; surveillance; monitoring; hygiene; public health; biotechnology; innovation
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Dear Colleagues,
Legionella is a key organism in water management, environmental microbiology, and public health. Since the Legionella pneumophila outbreak, occurring in the late Summer 1976 in Philadelphia, advances have been made in this field across the world, involving new methods for improving detection, technologies for disinfection, advances in diagnostic and therapies of Legionnaires’ disease, and also guidelines, recommendations, and official policies. Water contamination and disease epidemiology are related to the urbanization processes and management of water on a global scale. This Special Issue will recognize contributions from different disciplines, reporting advances in water management and public health tools aimed at controlling exposure risks and disease prevention, but also microorganism biology, methods, epidemiological studies, or regulations. People are closely connected to the health of water in buildings on both a local and global scale. The question of different Legionella species and their characteristics or the roles they play in their environment and/or in diseases represent a main focus. A wide range of proposals can be submitted, from Legionella’s role in biofilm and ecological niches to clinical issues with an epidemiological impact. Legionella issues can be addressed through different disciplines including epidemiology, microbiology, chemistry, physics, and engineering, as well as integrating seemingly unrelated ones such as economics, sociology, communication, public health and health systems, management and policies, narrative medicine, or humanities. Synergies between researchers with very different skills and backgrounds are welcome, especially if aiming to bring issues into a One Health dimension, facing water-related topics using an experimental or reviewing approach.
Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Romano Spica
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- monitoring
- surveillance
- water
- health policy
- epidemiology
- disinfection
- water management
- water safety plan
- water in buildings
- Legionellosis
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